PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Identify the Active Theme

Unlike the Windows versions of PowerPoint which shows the active Theme name on the Status bar, the Mac version does not show the active Theme name anywhere on its interface. If you need to know the active Theme’s name for any open presentation, how do you find this information? You can find the name of the Theme applied to the presentation following the steps explained here.

Learn how to identify the active Theme name in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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PowerPoint and Presenting News: April 22, 2014

We start with an exclusive conversation with Sam Haddad who discusses PowerPointWriter, a solution that lets you create PowerPoint files with code.

PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about manually embedding YouTube video, Smart Connectors, changing the default Theme or template — and also about Table Style options. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn that there are ways in which you can make your chart Plot Area look different with texture and pattern fills. We also explore how you can alter Chart Gap Width. And if you are using PowerPoint 2010, learn how you can repair your Office installation. PowerPoint 2003 users will learn about editing, creating, and renaming Slide Masters.

And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Types of Connectors

If you want to use a line that links two shapes together, you may then want that line to be always linked, even if move the original shapes. This sort of linking is called connecting shapes. And to keep these shapes connected, you most certainly will start by drawing a connector instead of a normal line. A connector looks like a line, but it stays connected to the shapes you attach it to. There are three types of connector lines: Straight, Elbow (angled), and Curved.

Learn about different connector types in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2003 for Windows: Change the Default Template

When you launch PowerPoint 2003, it opens an empty presentation of just one slide. Typically this one slide has a title placeholder and another placeholder for a subtitle — typing any text within these placeholders shows black text over a white slide background. This is the default template PowerPoint 2003 provides — but you don’t have to live with these defaults. You change this blank presentation so that you get a slide that’s part of your custom PowerPoint template. Or even any of the other templates built within PowerPoint.

Learn how to change the default template in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.

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Support for YouTube Videos in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013

Microsoft has reinstated the support for YouTube videos in both PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 for Windows. You may recall that the option to insert online YouTube videos was removed a while ago due to code discrepancies in the syntax that Google started to use for YouTube embeds. During the time that this option was no longer available in PowerPoint, users had to opt for a longer process or even do this entire task manually. Now that automatic insertion is again possible, this will go a long way in making this task easy to accomplish.

Learn about support for YouTube videos now reinstated in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 for Windows.

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